HOW gratifying to 

 one's sense of fit- 

 ness, how much more 

 fundamentally true is the 

 use of water in its serene 

 naturalness where al- 

 lowed to fill and follow 

 the hollows of the land 

 unspoiled by affectations, 

 than where it is arti- 

 ficially cramped. How 

 much more beautiful 

 such mirroring of the 

 slowly shifting shadows 

 and the happy sunshine 

 on the peaceful surface of 

 a little pond like this 

 than restless squirting 

 jets bespeaking artificial- 

 ity, and wholly foreign to 

 nature's own ways in the 

 matter of water. 



Margin and sloping 

 bank offer all sorts of op- 

 portunity for the intro- 

 duction of water-loving 

 plants, and groupings of 

 graceful grassesor shrubs. 

 Ingenuity has done much 

 in this particular in- 

 stance, transforming an 

 originally rather mean- 

 ingless small stream into 

 a landscape feature of 

 value and charm. 



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